Sliding Numbers is a fun and challenging numeric puzzle game. Place all the numbers from 1 to 15 in order of magnitude. Strategically move the blocks around to get your numbers in the appropiate spot! Sliding Numbers is a fun and challenging numeric puzzle game. Place all the numbers from 1 to 15 in order of magnitude. Strategically move the blocks around to get your numbers in the appropiate spot!

There are now three ways to play these mazes. The first is a modification of Toby Nelson’s original Java applet, which you can play on the Theseus page of this site. The applet has three training levels to help explain the mazes, then seven fairly tricky levels. It should take you about a week to get through those seven levels, and they provide a good introduction to the game.

Second, there is the Kristanix download. This has 87 large-screen levels for computers. Its price is $9.95, but you can download the entire game for free, then play it for a while before you decide whether to buy it.

Free Online Mazes

Third, there is the version for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. It has the same 87 levels and only costs $3.99. There is also a free version, Theseus Lite, that has a sampling of levels from the full version.

Number Maze Computer Game

The Theseus page has more about the three ways of playing these mazes. It also has a long history of the mazes, which goes back to my original print version in 1990. There is also a discussion of Toby Nelson’s layout-generating program, and there is an amusing updating of the Theseus myth.